Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

you have to be careful with these feature requests, some don't really
bring plan 9 forward, because they are too generally useful and not
plan 9 specific enough.

On 11/20/16, Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the idea of focusing on the functionality, not specific software,
> that could go into a 5th edition. It seems that stepping back and rethinking
> popular industry trends led to some of the unique and interesting decisions
> that gave us plan9 in the first place.
>
> Here is what I'd like to see
> -3D graphics (something akin to /dev/draw except for graphics pipelines)
> -Location capabilities (gps, map drawing, routing)
> -Mobile interface (clean, simple, optimized for small and touch screens)
> -2D graphics editing (edit photographs or make raster art from scratch,
> layers, antialiasing, filesystem for scripting)
> -3D printing (manipulate 3D model data, output one of the standard formats
> for printers)
> -Knowledge/AI system (plug in statements, make inferences)
> -Notifications (deliver events, alerts and reminders to my attention in a
> consistent manner)
> -Search quickly for files based on content (indices, also accessible via 9P,
> there's a paper floating around about this)
> -Easily find disk space statistics (free disk space for each file system)
> -Single Instruction Multiple Data (language and compiler for writing
> programs that can use these special instructions)
> -Video playback and recording (support for most popular 3 codecs, including
> one of the free ones, syncing of audio stream, record from camera and/or
> screen)
> -Clean HTML (not fully featured web browser, instead render existing HTML in
> a clean, readable way, not unlike the various reader modes in popular web
> browsers, convert to PDF/PS)
>
> I think that each of these can be done in the plan9 way with simple,
> consistent and elegant implementations that integrate well with the rest of
> the system. The focus is to enable capability and not necessarily to just
> port existing software, repeating existing complexity and bloat.
>
> Chris
>
>> On Nov 19, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Charlie Lin <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any features that should be incorporated into Plan 9?
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 16, 2016 17:27, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition?
>>>
>>> My desires:
>>> ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor
>>> Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here
>>> Start a source code repository
>>> Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here
>